Shoe-cleaner



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A. E. -& G. NIELSEN. 110 CLEANER.

No. 560,351. Patented Nov. 26, 1895.

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,SHOB CLEANER.

No.55O,351.' Patented Nov. 26,1895,

' WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON E. NIELSEN AND GEORGE NIELSEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,351, dated November26, 1895.

Application 515a March 20, 1895.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that we, ANTON E. NIELSEN and GEORGE NIELSEN, citizens ofDenmark, and residents of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inShoe-Oleaners, of which the following is a specification. Our inventionrelates to devices for cleaning boots or shoes; and it consists of acertain novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a side view of acleaner embodying our invention. Fig. II represents a plan or top Viewthereof. Fig. III represents a vertical longitudinal section thereof.Fig. IV represents a vertical cross-section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The frame of our cleaner comprises tWo side parts A, each of which isformed with legs B to be fastened to the floor or other suitablesupport. Connecting these side parts A are cross-bars O, whichconstitute scrapers for the sole of the shoe. 7

Each of the side parts A has a ledge D projecting' inwardly therefrom,upon which rests a vertical brush E, which is a medium for cleaningeither sole edge and the sides of the shoe which may be presentedthereto. Said vertical brushes E face each other, and the distancebetween them is approximately equal to the width of the shoe to becleaned=that is to say, a shoe introduced between the brushes isintended to contact, as to its sides, with the side brushes. Upon thesaid side vertical brushes is a horizontal brush F, which is a mediumfor cleaning the top or upper of the shoe,

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and at a point below the side brushes is a second horizontal brush G,which serves to clean the sole of the shoe. The lower horizontal brush Gco-operates with the cross-bars O, and in order to increase the effectthereof it is made movable in vertical direction and is supported upon aspring H, which acts thereon with a tendency to force it upward. Thuswhen the foot is introduced between the side brushes E and made to reston the lower horizontal brush G every portion of the shoe may be at oncefreed of the dirt that may have accumulated thereupon,the severalbrushes acting on the top, bottom, and sides of the shoe.

The side brushes E and top brush F are fixed in contradistinction to thebottom brush G, which, as before stated, is movable.

In the example shown the spring H is attached to a cross-bar I of theframe; but it is evident that other means may be employed for thispurpose.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A shoe-cleaner comprising the frame with cross bars formingsole-scrapers a verticallymovable horizontal brush co-operating with thecross bars, and a spring supporting the said movable brush, incombination with the fixed vertical brushes on opposite sides of theframe, facing each other, and the fixed horizontal brush on the top ofthe side brushes,

substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

ANTON E. NIELSEN. GEORGE NIELSEN. Witnesses:

CHARLES G. 00E, CHAS. WAHLERS.

